The members are all part of the pre-debut group SMROOKIES created by S.M. Entertainment. Taeyong, Ten, Jaehyun, and Mark were introduced in 2013, while Taeil and Doyoung were introduced in 2015.
The first six members to debut with NCT U were Taeil, Taeyong, Doyoung, Ten, Jaehyun and Mark.
Their first single "์ผ๊ณฑ ๋ฒ์งธ ๊ฐ๊ฐ (The 7th Sense)" was released on April 8, 2016. Their second single "WITHOUT YOU" was released on April 10, with the Korean version recorded by Taeil, Doyoung, and Jaehyun, and Chinese version recorded by Taeil, Kun, Doyoung and Jaehyun.
In mid-January 2018, NCT was reported to be unveil a "large-scale project" for the year, titled NCT 2018. On January 30, 2018, S.M. Entertainment released a video titled "NCT 2018 Yearbook #1," which featured existing members and introduced new members Kun, Lucas, and Jungwoo. All NCT sub-units were revealed to be participating in the project. The first and single for the project were revealed to be saved for NCT U. The second member line-up included Taeyong, Doyoung, Jaehyun, Mark, Winwin, Jungwoo and Lucas. NCT U's third single "BOSS" was released on February 18, 2018. On February 26, NCT U as Ten and Taeyeong released "Baby Don't Stop". NCT released their first full-length album, NCT 2018 Empathy, on March 14.
On October 12, 2020, new members Shotaro and Sungchan debuted in NCT with NCT RESONANCE Pt. 1 - The 2nd Album, the first part of NCT's second full-length album.
Universe
NCT U Lyrics
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Yo, you're my universe (yeah, yeah)
Let's play ball, let's play ball (yeah)
Yo, you're my universe (do it)
What you got, what you got (let's play ball, let's play ball)
What you got, what you got (yo, you're my universe)
What you got, what you got (let's play ball, let's play ball)
(What you got, what you got) you got what I want
(What you got, what you got) ํ๋ ๊ฐ์ฆ ์์ ์ํ๋
(Let's play ball, let's play ball) I know what you want
(Yo, you're my universe) ๋์ ๋จ๋ ๋์ universe
My game ๊ทธ๊ฑด ์ด๋ช ์ด๋ผ ๋งํ์ง (do it)
ํผ์ด๋๋ ๋ฏธ๋๋ฅผ ๋๋ ๊ฑฐ์ง (feel it)
๋์ ธ ๋ด ๋ ๋ฐ์๋ผ ์ ์์ผ๋ (ya, ya)
Can't you see I'm on the way (ha, ha)
๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์์์ ๊ดํ ์๊ธฐ์ผ (๋ค์ด๋ด)
์๋ํ ์ฐ์ฃผ์ ํจ์ฑ์ ๋๊ปด๋ด (showtime)
Hey, when you hit the floor
We make the world stop
ํ ๋ป ๋น ์ ธ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ์
๋น์ผ๋ก ์ฑ์์ค, ๋น์ผ๋ก ์ฑ์์ค
์ด ์ด๋ ์ด๋์๋ ๋ค๊ฐ
์ฐฌ๋ํ ๋ณด์ด๊ฒ
You're my world, my universe
๋ญ๋ ํ ์ ์์ด
You're my star, my victory
ํํฌ ์์ ํ์ดํ์ด๋ธ
So, here we are ๋ฌ๋ ค๊ฐ๊ณ ์์ด
์ค์ง ํ๋ ์ ์ฑ์ฒ๋ผ ๋น๋๋ฉฐ
My destiny ๋๋ฅผ ์์ง์ด๋ my ace
Yeah, nothing's gonna stop us now
What you got, what's a lot ain't enough
๋ฐ์ ๋๊ณ pivot
๋ด ์ฐ์ฃผ์ ์ค์ฌ ์ค์ง ayy, ayy
Swear to God (let's play ball)
Girl, you know you got that walk (let's play ball)
๋ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ด ๋๊ณ pivot (yo, you're my universe)
Let's go spinning, I be singing
(What you got, what you got) you got what I want
(What you got, what you got) ํ๋ ๊ฐ์ฆ ์์ ์ํ๋
(Let's play ball, let's play ball) I know what you want
๋์ ๋จ๋ ๋์ universe
์ ๋ณ์ ๋ด ์ฐ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๋ก์ง๋ฌ
์ฐฐ๋ ์์ผ๋ก ์ฌ๋ผ์ ธ ์ ์ ํด๋
๋จ์ ๋น์ ๋จธ๋ฌด๋ฅด๋ฉฐ ์ฐ๋ฆด ์ด๋ฃจ๋ง์ ธ
์๋ฆ๋ค์ ๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋์ ์์นดํ ๋ผ
(Ah) yeah, we about to ball out (ball out)
๊ฐ๋ ์จ์ด๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ณ๋ค์ ์ฅ๋ (why?)
์บ์บํด ์ ธ๋ ๋๋ง ๋ณด์ด์์
Knockin' knockin' on ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋์ ์ธ์์
๋๋๋ ค ๋๋๋ ค
๋ฌด์๋ฏธํ ์๊ฐ์ ์์ด
์ด ์๊ฐ ๋ค์ด๋ด
You're my world, my universe
๋ญ๋ ํ ์ ์์ด
You're my star, my victory
ํํฌ ์์ ํ์ดํ์ด๋ธ
So, here we are ๋ฌ๋ ค๊ฐ๊ณ ์์ด
์ค์ง ํ๋ ์ ์ฑ์ฒ๋ผ ๋น๋๋ฉฐ
My destiny ๋๋ฅผ ์์ง์ด๋ my ace
Yeah, nothing's gonna stop us now
์๋ก๋ฅผ ๋๊ปด ๋๋ ต์ง ์์
์ด์ด์ ธ ์์์ (touch me now)
์ด๋ ์ ํค๋งค๋ ๋๋ฅผ ๊ปด์์
It can't hurt me now (hurt me now)
๋ถ์์ง ๋น์ ํธ๋ฅด๋ฆ ์ ํฌ๋ฏธํด์ ธ ๊ฐ์ง๋ง (fades away)
๊ทธ ๋๊ตฌ๋ ๊ฐํ ๋ด ์ธ์์ ๋ฐ๊ฟ ์ ์์ผ๋ oh whoa
You're my world, my universe
๋ญ๋ ํ ์ ์์ด
You're my star, my victory
ํํฌ ์์ ํ์ดํ์ด๋ธ
So, here we are ๋ฌ๋ ค๊ฐ๊ณ ์์ด
์ค์ง ํ๋ ์ ์ฑ์ฒ๋ผ ๋น๋๋ฉฐ
My destiny ๋๋ฅผ ์์ง์ด๋ my ace
Yeah, nothing's gonna stop us now
(What you got) let's play ball, (what you got) let's play ball
(What you got) yo, you're my universe (what you got)
(What you got) let's play ball, (what you got) let's play ball
(What you got) yo, you're my universe
(What you got) let's play ball, (what you got) let's play ball
(What you got) yo, you're my universe (what you got)
(What you got) let's play ball, (what you got) let's play ball
(What you got) yo, you're my universe-verse-verse
The lyrics to NCT U's song "Universe" express a deep connection between two people who see the world as their playground. The repeated refrain of "let's play ball" serves as a metaphor for the fun and games they can have together, with the two of them being each other's entire universe. The verses expand on this idea, with lines like "My game, that's just fate talking" and "Nothing's gonna stop us now" conveying a sense of destiny and invincibility between the two of them. They encourage the listener to join them in their revelry, insisting that they're capable of anything as long as they're together.
The lyrics also feature a lot of space-themed imagery, with lines like "My destiny, my ace" and "My star, my victory" creating a sense of grandiose importance in their relationship. The chorus proclaims that "You're my world, my universe" and that this person is capable of anything, implying that their bond has the power to shape the cosmos itself. The lyrics thus convey a sense of carefree joy and empowerment, encouraging the listener to embrace their own universe and make it a playground of their own.
Line by Line Meaning
Let's play ball (yeah), let's play ball (do it)
Let's engage in this game with excitement and enthusiasm.
Yo, you're my universe (yeah, yeah)
You mean everything to me, you are my universe.
Let's play ball, let's play ball (yeah)
Let's participate in this activity with passion and enjoyment.
Yo, you're my universe (do it)
You are the center of my world, my everything.
What you got, what you got (let's play ball, let's play ball)
What do you have to bring to this activity? Let's do this!
What you got, what you got (yo, you're my universe)
What qualities do you possess that make me see you as the center of my world?
(What you got, what you got) you got what I want
You possess what I need, my desires are fulfilled by you.
(What you got, what you got) ํ๋ ๊ฐ์ฆ ์์ ์ํ๋
What I have been yearning for during my thirsting struggles.
(Let's play ball, let's play ball) I know what you want
I understand your desires, let's do this activity together.
(Yo, you're my universe) ๋์ ๋จ๋ ๋์ universe
You are my universe that I see when I finally open my eyes.
My game ๊ทธ๊ฑด ์ด๋ช
์ด๋ผ ๋งํ์ง (do it)
My skills and abilities were meant to be, destiny brought me here.
ํผ์ด๋๋ ๋ฏธ๋๋ฅผ ๋๋ ๊ฑฐ์ง (do it)
I feel the blossoming of my future as I engage in this activity.
๋์ ธ ๋ด ๋ ๋ฐ์๋ผ ์ ์์ผ๋ (ya, ya)
Throw it at me, I can handle it and come out successful.
Can't you see I'm on the way (ha, ha)
I'm en route to success, can't you see my progress?
๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์์์ ๊ดํ ์๊ธฐ์ผ (๋ค์ด๋ด)
Everything is about the beginning, listen to what I have to say.
์๋ํ ์ฐ์ฃผ์ ํจ์ฑ์ ๋๊ปด๋ด (showtime)
Experience the harmony of the noisy universe, it's showtime.
Hey, when you hit the floor
When we begin this activity intensely.
We make the world stop
Our remarkable performance will capture everyone's attention and freeze time.
ํ ๋ป ๋น ์ ธ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ์
Let's immerse ourselves completely.
๋น์ผ๋ก ์ฑ์์ค, ๋น์ผ๋ก ์ฑ์์ค
Fill the atmosphere with light, let light surround us.
์ด ์ด๋ ์ด๋์๋ ๋ค๊ฐ ์ฐฌ๋ํ ๋ณด์ด๊ฒ
Even in the darkness, you shine so brightly.
You're my world, my universe
You are my whole world, you are the universe to me.
๋ญ๋ ํ ์ ์์ด
We can do anything.
You're my star, my victory
You are the shining star that brings me victory.
ํํฌ ์์ ํ์ดํ์ด๋ธ
A high five of joy and happiness.
So, here we are ๋ฌ๋ ค๊ฐ๊ณ ์์ด
We are charging forward.
์ค์ง ํ๋ ์ ์ฑ์ฒ๋ผ ๋น๋๋ฉฐ
Our talent and brilliance shine like a meteor.
My destiny ๋๋ฅผ ์์ง์ด๋ my ace
My fate, my skills that move me forward.
Yeah, nothing's gonna stop us now
Nothing can prevent us from achieving our goal.
What you got, what's a lot ain't enough
No matter how much you have, it's never enough for me.
๋ฐ์ ๋๊ณ pivot
Step forward and pivot.
๋ด ์ฐ์ฃผ์ ์ค์ฌ ์ค์ง ayy, ayy
You are the center of my universe, solely and confidently.
Swear to God (let's play ball)
I promise on my God that we will succeed in this activity.
Girl, you know you got that walk (let's play ball)
You have a confident and attractive way of walking, let's engage in this activity.
๋ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ด ๋๊ณ pivot (yo, you're my universe)
Let's move forward together and pivot, you are the universe to me.
Let's go spinning, I be singing
Let's spin around while singing.
(What you got, what you got) ํ๋ ๊ฐ์ฆ ์์ ์ํ๋
What I've been hoping for during my thirsting struggles.
๋์ ๋จ๋ ๋์ universe
You are the reason I finally opened my eyes, you are my universe.
์ ๋ณ์ ๋ด ์ฐ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๋ก์ง๋ฌ
That star crosses my universe.
์ฐฐ๋ ์์ผ๋ก ์ฌ๋ผ์ ธ ์ ์ ํด๋
Despite disappearing momentarily, it hides and remains in my memory.
๋จ์ ๋น์ ๋จธ๋ฌด๋ฅด๋ฉฐ ์ฐ๋ฆด ์ด๋ฃจ๋ง์ ธ
The remaining light lingers and surrounds us.
์๋ฆ๋ค์ ๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋์ ์์นดํ ๋ผ
Our beautiful acapella performance together.
(Ah) yeah, we about to ball out (ball out)
Ah, yes, we are about to engage in this activity with force and power.
๊ฐ๋ ์จ์ด๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ณ๋ค์ ์ฅ๋ (why?)
Why do the stars sometimes hide and play games?
์บ์บํด ์ ธ๋ ๋๋ง ๋ณด์ด์์
Even in the darkest of times, all I can see is you.
Knockin' knockin' on ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋์ ์ธ์์
We are knocking on the door to our world together.
๋๋๋ ค ๋๋๋ ค ๋ฌด์๋ฏธํ ์๊ฐ์ ์์ด
We knock and knock, there is no such thing as meaningless time.
์ด ์๊ฐ ๋ค์ด๋ด
Listen to this moment.
์๋ก๋ฅผ ๋๊ปด ๋๋ ต์ง ์์
We feel each other without fear.
์ด์ด์ ธ ์์์ (touch me now)
We are connected, touch me now.
์ด๋ ์ ํค๋งค๋ ๋๋ฅผ ๊ปด์์
I embrace you who were lost in the darkness.
It can't hurt me now (hurt me now)
Nothing can harm me now.
๋ถ์์ง ๋น์ ํธ๋ฅด๋ฆ ์ ํฌ๋ฏธํด์ ธ ๊ฐ์ง๋ง (fades away)
Even though the shattered light becomes faint in the blue, it fades away.
๊ทธ ๋๊ตฌ๋ ๊ฐํ ๋ด ์ธ์์ ๋ฐ๊ฟ ์ ์์ผ๋ oh whoa
No one can dare to change my world, oh whoa.
(What you got) let's play ball, (what you got) let's play ball
What do you have to bring to the game? Let's engage in this activity.
(What you got) yo, you're my universe (what you got)
You possess qualities that make you my entire universe.
(What you got) yo, you're my universe
You are my everything, my universe.
Lyrics ยฉ BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Peermusic Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: Yeon Jung Kim, Mark Lee, Dwayne Abernathy Jr., Carlos Battey, Jhun Ryan Sewon, Breyan Stanley Isaac, Wayne Anthony Hector, Alexandru Cotoi Florin, Marcel Botezan
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@DeobiDeobi
NCT 127 : You're My Favorite
NCT U : You're My Universe
@sA-ce1mp
NCT DREAM : You're My Everything
@hyuckadorr
NCT 127 : "You're my QUEEN now!"
@biancaluna712
You will be missed Shotaro, this song won't be the same without you :'( โก
@cadynextdoor
i agree but the way you phrased it makes it sound like he died ๐
@asahik-dancingofficial393
But no era mv for Sungchan
@gabrielruiz5459
โ@@asahik-dancingofficial393 "90's love"
@tang7736
Supporting riize sungtaro
@nakng17
shotaro๐ข
@stannctorbeasquare
Me randomly spouting out "let's play ball! let's play ball!" in the living room and my roommate joining in with "yo, you're my universe" when she isn't even a fan of NCT is just the highlight of my life as a NCTzen. I am gonna have everyone around me get hip to NCT